Lincoln Child

Days before a massive exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being murdered. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. The museum's directors decide to go ahead with the bash in spite of the murders. Now museum researcher Margo Green must find out who or what is doing the killing. Does she have time to stop a massacre?

A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Junior FBI Agent Corrie Swanson needs to ID the body, and determine cause of death. When archaeologist Nora Kelly lends her expertise to the investigation, they uncover that the deceased died in a fetal position, skin coming off in sheets, a rictus of horror frozen on his face. And hidden on the corpse is a sixteenth century...

When a meteorite possessing secrets about human evolution is discovered in a desolate region of Chile, an expedition team sets out to recover it but finds increasing mysteries and dangerous challenges along the way.

When FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers a murder in the attic of a Long Island estate, a scorched claw print leads him down a dark trail of unspeakable terror.
A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate.
There is a claw print scorched into the wall, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air.
When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured...

Pendergast, the world's most mysterious FBI Special Agent, investigates a murderous cult in New York City that no one has ever survived.
William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbor—a...

Experience a heart-pumping and thrilling tale of suspense! Originally published in THRILLER (2006), edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson. In this tag team Thriller Short, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child feature New York City policeman Vincent D'Agosta, who becomes involved with the theft of an ancient Incan sacrificial knife. But before D'Agosta can apprehend the thieves, they meet an untimely death. The particularly...

After Pendergast is presumed dead from a supernatural encounter, his bodyguard Proctor is the only one who can chase a kidnapper across international waters and into the deadly unknown. A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead. A SHOCKING RETURN Sick with grief, Pendergast's ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath...

Nur nicht den Kopf verlieren, heißt es für Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast und Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta: In New York treibt ein Serienkiller sein Unwesen, der die Köpfe seiner Opfer als Trophäen behält. Doch er hinterlässt kaum verwertbare Spuren, und die Ermordeten scheinen nichts gemeinsam zu haben - außer Geld, Macht und keinerlei Skrupel. Geht im Big Apple ein Rächer um? Eine Welle der Hysterie stürzt die ganze Stadt ins Chaos. Mittendrin...

Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast reist zusammen mit seiner Vertrauten Constance Greene nach Exmouth, Massachusetts, um den Diebstahl einer wertvollen Weinsammlung aufzuklären. Im Weinkeller stößt er auf ein Verlies, in dem offenbar ein Mensch lebendig eingemauert wurde. Doch von dem Skelett fehlt - mit Ausnahme eines Fingerknochens - jede Spur. Bald schon erfährt Pendergast von der düsteren Vergangenheit der Stadt. Die Legende sagt, dass 1692,...